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On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:29:10PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> --On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long=20
> <scottl@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> >5.  Clustered FS support.  SANs are all the rage these days, and
> >clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many
> >storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very
> >powerful.  RedHat recently bought Sistina and re-opened the GFS source
> >code, so exploring this would be very interesting.
>=20
> This sounds very close to OpenAFS.  I don't know what distinguishes a SAN=
=20
> from other types of NAS.  OpenAFS does everything you mentioned in the=20
> above paragraph.  OpenAFS _almost_ works on FreeBSD right now.

I'd be very interested to try using this for package builds, btw.
Currently I have to rsync a lot of data to the remote build clients,
which takes a very long time.

Kris

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